JavaFX Integration Strategies | Adam Bien
With lambdas and support for asynchronous communication, JavaFX introduces new integration possibilities for back-end services. Get the details in this new article from Java Champion Adam Bien.

Monday Nov 25, 2013

More than 4,600 people follow the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page for daily links to content created by community members. The list below represents the Top 10 items shared on that page for the week of November 17-23, 2013.

Changes In Attitude | Floyd Teter
Preparing for the demise of the commercial version of GlassFish, Oracle ACE Director Floyd Teter builds a new Oracle Linux VM, installs WebLogic 12.1.2 -- and shares insight gained in the process.

Why ODI, DW and OBIEE Developers Should Be Interested in Hadoop | Mark Rittman
"Hadoop is the classic disruptive technology," says Oracle ACE Director Mark Rittman, "cheap, and starting-off with far less functionality than regular, relational databases – but it’s improving fast, and as BI&DW developers it offers the potential of both massive benefits." Get more of Mark's insight in his extensive post.

Video Interview: Cloud Service Brokers - A SOA Symposium Preview
In this video interview SOA community maven Jurgen Kress and Oracle ACE Rolando Carrasco preview "Cloud Service Brokers," the session they will present as part of the Cloud Computing Architecture, Brokers & Patterns track at the SOA, Cloud, and Service Technology Symposium, December 4-5, 2013 in Mexico City.

Friday Nov 22, 2013

One of the observations that came out of the SOA expert roundtable discussion captured in the latest OTN ArchBeat podcast was that while SOA tools and technologies are mature, some organizations still struggle with SOA because they lack the organizational maturity to overcome the lack of communication, cooperation, and trust between siloed development groups.

You'll find additional insight into those issues in the latest blog post from David Sprott, which includes highlights from a survey in which he asked architects, designers and project managers about service specification practices.

Among the highlights from that survey:

DIY is the dominant service specification approach

Documents and spreadsheets still dominate tool usage for service planning, reporting and management

Dissatisfaction with tool support, "particularly in the context of communicating service specifications between the different roles and groups across the organization."

On that last point, are the tools really to blame? If, as those participating in my podcast pointed out, the "not invented here" syndrome still seems to throw up barriers to service reuse across siloes, isn't that a people, rather than a tool problem?

Why ODI, DW and OBIEE Developers Should Be Interested in Hadoop | Mark Rittman
"Hadoop is the classic disruptive technology," says Oracle ACE Director Mark Rittman, "cheap, and starting-off with far less functionality than regular, relational databases – but it’s improving fast, and as BI&DW developers it offers the potential of both massive benefits." Get more of Mark's insight in his extensive post.